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British minister Penny Mordaunt on Friday launched her bid to replace Liz Truss as prime minister, becoming the first Conservative lawmaker to formally announce they are running. Mordaunt, 49, has navigated the tenures of the four prime ministers she has served under, keeping her distance from Boris Johnson's scandal-ridden time…

Leader of the House of Commons is the first to declare

Leader of House of Commons and former defence secretary announces candidacy

The decision to call an election is up to the PM who succeeds Liz Truss.

Following the resignation of Liz Truss as Britain's fourth prime minister in a little over six years, her Conservative Party — in power since 2010 — is racing to select a replacement.

Events in the House of Commons on October 19 made it clear that the prime minister had lost control

Mr Matheson has announced he will step down after a Parliamentary watchdog recommended he be suspended from the House of Commons for four weeks

Move will trigger byelection in Chester after panel finds he breached Commons’ sexual misconduct policy

A Labour MP has resigned after Westminster’s sleaze watchdog recommended he should be suspended for “serious sexual misconduct”.

The ruling Conservative Party is expected to select the new prime minister by October 28 following Truss’s resignation.

Liz Truss resigned as the Conservative party leader just 45 days after being elected to that position. She was forced out by her backbenchers because of a disastrously misjudged mini-budget, concerns about her competency and a catastrophic collapse in the Conservatives’ poll ratings. She is now destined to become the…